Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Take Me With You --by Andrea Gibson

Poetry

224 pages

3 Stars

Note:Book will not be
available until 13 February 2018

Disclaimer: I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for
an honest review

If I read at the beginning of this book that Ms. Gibson is a
member of the LGBTQ community, it didn't register, because I don't really care.
However, if you do care, you need to know, because she is a lesbian, and her
poetry shows it.

Reading an electronic ARC I missed the white space the
printed page would give. I assume each wee poem or aphorism will appear on its
own page in the final form. On my eReader (phone) they appear to be on a long,
single page, all running together, and the mix of fonts distracted, especially
the middle-of-the-word caps, e.g., FIght. Those bothered me the most and threw
me out of the book each time I came to one. I had to stop, re-read, decide what
I thought she was saying, and determine whether or not it was misspelled.

This book, as I read it, is a mix of good, bad, and so-so
writings. I felt it was un-polished, and perhaps not up to her normal standard
of writing. Even so, I could relate to much of what she wrote.